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MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture / Interview avec le chercheur en organologie Michel Ndoh - 29/11/2024

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00:00Welcome to Mediane TV and Zoom in this chronicle on musical instruments on the African continent.

00:16And to talk about it, I have the pleasure and honor to have with me Michel Ndo, he is a researcher in organology.

00:23Michel Ndo, thank you very much for accepting our invitation.

00:26So just behind us, we can see a multitude of instruments in Africa.

00:31What can we say today about this research that you do not stop on these instruments?

00:37First of all, what I want to say is that it is exciting, it is rich, it is varied.

00:41It aims to tell the history of Africa through traditional musical instruments.

00:48It is made up of four main families of traditional musical instruments.

00:54Stringed instruments, instruments whose sound results from the play of one or more strings.

01:01Membranophones, instruments with skins, so membranes.

01:06So the sound results from the play of this membrane.

01:09Areophones, instruments whose sound results from the push of air through a cavity.

01:14So we'll see later that you're certainly going to take a picture.

01:18But finally, we have idiophones, instruments whose sound results from the play of matter itself.

01:27So know that your body is already an idiophone.

01:30When you clap your hands, it's the sound of an idiophone.

01:34So Michel Ndo, we had the opportunity to meet at SUERA to talk about these musical instruments.

01:43And it turns out that African music has this specificity,

01:50that it continues to occur with old instruments, some very, very old.

01:57Is it precisely the specificity of this African music,

02:00it is the fact of protecting these instruments of music so old and so diverse?

02:06So our goal too, and certainly as you have said so well,

02:11is to protect instruments that are on the verge of extinction.

02:14But not only protect them, but bring the youth today,

02:19that is, the younger audience, to use them in their musical production.

02:24Even if we have to develop them, give them a little more depth.

02:28But at the same time, understand that the traditional musical instrument

02:32is a vector between man and ancestry, a communication vector.

02:39So it allows man to cross and reach beyond through the sounds it can produce.

02:46So it's a tool, how can we say that, of cryptocommunication.

02:52There are many instruments that are there to allow man to have a relationship with the beyond.

02:58That's how Africans look at these things.

03:01But at the same time, we must remember that we also have a challenge,

03:06it is to realize that it is thanks to nature that we produce traditional musical instruments.

03:13Because we have the flora, we have the fauna, we have the soil and the subsoil that produce all this.

03:19But precisely, our common fight today is to bring the public authorities

03:25to put into practice a policy of management of our environment.

03:31Without the environment, there will be no more of these instruments that you see.

03:35This is important.

03:36So, for example, if you no longer have the skin of a camel,

03:46if you no longer have the bones of a goat, you no longer have the ghembri.

03:49If you no longer have the wood of a walnut tree, you no longer have the ghembri.

03:54It's the same for other stringed instruments, such as the mvet,

03:57where you are going to have calabash.

03:59Without calabash, there is no more of this instrument.

04:02So it's not just a game, it's a challenge.

04:06A very important challenge that has to do with ecology,

04:10so the environment overall, and us humans.

04:13So, Michel Ndeo, in this quest and this search for these African instruments,

04:18the continent is huge, there must be thousands of instruments.

04:22If there is one instrument that you have found,

04:25that you want to make last for eternity, what would that instrument be?

04:31You're embarrassing me, because I love them all.

04:34I love them all.

04:35But I really like stringed instruments,

04:37because stringed instruments are, overall, epic instruments.

04:42They tell epic tales, they tell the story of Africa.

04:45So, all the instruments in all the countries you see,

04:49all the epic instruments are very important.

04:52All, and mostly, stringed instruments.

04:55And they don't come from today, they come from ancient Egypt,

04:58where the harp was already used.

05:00And the harp was one of the major instruments

05:03that the artists of that time always used.

05:08Michel Ndeo, thank you very much for accepting our invitation.

05:12I remind you that you are a researcher in organology of history,

05:16so instruments of music.

05:18Thank you very much for accepting our invitation.

05:20Thank you for this honor that you give me,

05:22for this sharing that I also do in Africa and all over the world.

05:25Thank you very much.

05:26Thank you, dear viewers, for your loyalty.

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#Chronique_culture / Interview avec le chercheur en organologie Michel Ndoh - 29/11/2024

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